Radio’s 2025 Season of Giving Nears $500K Mark in Week One
Radio stations across the country kicked off the 2025 Season of Giving Tally with an impressive wave of community support, collectively raising $410,567 and mobilizing listeners for causes spanning children’s health, animal welfare, and local youth initiatives.
10 Steps To Help Your Sales Team Close Out Q4 Together
(Loyd Ford) The fourth quarter is crunch time in radio; the season when strong teams separate themselves from everyone else. It isn’t over. To hit and exceed your goals, you don’t just need individual effort; you need alignment, communication, and collective drive.
Reinvent Your Client for Fun & Profit
(Jeffrey Hedquist) Your client works hard, but they’re not getting the same results or the same increases in business they used to get. Their response: “We’ll do even more of what we’ve been doing, or we’ll work harder, or we’ll sell for less.” Here's how you need to intervene:
Zeno Media Adds Mike McVay as Strategic Advisor
Digital audio provider Zeno Media has appointed McVay Media President Mike McVay as a strategic advisor. McVay will collaborate with company leadership on content strategy, programming, and Zeno’s global audio footprint across traditional and digital platforms.
NYC’s Hot 97 & WBLS Will Soon Be On-Air In California & Texas
In an extension of the national presence of its flagship radio brands, New York City's Hot 97 (WQHT) and WBLS will now be heard in major multicultural markets across Southern California and Texas, taking talent like Ebro, Funk Flex, and Jusnik out west.
Bustos Media Marks 11th Year Raising Over $100K for St. Jude
Bustos Media's 32 radio stations came together to raise $143,067 during the broadcaster's annual radiothon benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This was the company’s eleventh consecutive year surpassing the $100,000 fundraising milestone.
Audacy Rock Format VP Vince Richards Stepping Down
Vince Richards is leaving Audacy at the end of the month after eight years overseeing operations and music stations in Dallas, managing two Rock stations in Sacramento, and serving as the company's Rock Format Vice President for the past four years.
LAST CALL: Steven Portnoy, Stephen A, and Forecast 2026
Radio’s future won’t wait. Radio Ink’s November Forecast 2026 issue confronts the year ahead, from FCC power shifts and market volatility to the business of trust, regulation, and reinvention, through voices shaping what comes next for broadcasters, investors, and storytellers alike.
Broadcasters Foundation and NAB Host Inaugural DC Media Mixer
Policy briefings were put on pause last night as the broadcast industry gathered on M Street for an evening of genuine connection at the NAB headquarters, where the Broadcasters Foundation of America hosted its first Washington, DC, Media Mixer.
Radio’s Superpower
(Randy Lane) One of the biggest reasons people listen to the radio isn’t for music or traffic updates; it’s for connection. Listeners tune in for company, and for that familiar voice that makes their day feel a little less lonely. And right now, that connection matters more than ever.
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